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The MERKEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 451 44821 0 2
United States (1880 census) 122 27483 0 2
Change since 1880 +329 -17338 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MERKEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 79 5523 0.002 23
Pennsylvania 68 21508 0.001 6
Florida 44 35436 0.000 3
Michigan 40 31042 0.000 4
New York 27 63546 0.000 1
Top States for MERKEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 79 5523 0.002 23
Utah 18 11310 0.001 8
Arkansas 17 12774 0.001 6
Idaho 8 19525 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 68 21508 0.001 6

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MERKEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MERKEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MERKEY in Oklahoma than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MERKEY by picking someone at random in Oklahoma than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MERKEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MERKEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of MERKEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 432 95.79
Mixed Race 9 2
Black/African American 5 1.11
Native American/Alaskan 5 1.11
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) - 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MERKEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

MERKEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MERKEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MERKEY.

Similar names to MERKEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MERKEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MERKEY

The following words are slight variants of MERKEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.